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Articles and Book Chapters

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (Forthcoming). Riding for Gender Justice: Reflections on Decolonial Feminist Digital Participatory Action Research in Nicaragua. Action Research.

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Otte, J. (In press). Decolonial feminism, entrepreneurship, and the use of the bicycles for development in Northern Uganda.Transportation Research Record.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Cobban, K., Cruz Centeno, L., Wilson, B. & Gonsalves, C. (2025). “The Climate Crisis is Violence:” Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Bicycles for Mobility Justice and Development in Nicaragua. Leisure Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2025.2528758

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Iqbal, I. (2025). The challenges of addressing sexual and gender-based violence and climate (in)justice: Tensions and challenges for the Sport for Development and Peace sector. In J. Rookwood & M. Holmes (Eds.), Sport, Development and Peace: Critical Global Challenges. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-86930-3_3

Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Wang, R. (2024). Bicycling for mutual aid: Centering racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ cyclists in Toronto. Urban, Planning and Transport Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2023.2277804

Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & McSweeney, M. (2023). Co-creating knowledge on Bicycles for Development: A decolonial feminist Participatory Action Research approach to arts-based methods. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2243955 

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Millington, B., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M., & Otte, J. (2023). Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace. Leisure Sciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2217161

Kaur, T., Forde, S. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2023). Working-class cyclists on Rudolf Greyling Street, Bloemfontein: Buffers between practices and practicalities of “Bicycles-for-Development. Urban Forum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-022-09475-7

McSweeney, M.J., Otte, J., Eyul, P., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Tara Parytci, D. (2022). Conducting effectivecollaborative research across global North-South contexts: Benefits, challenges, and implications of working withvisual and digital participatory research approaches. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2048059

Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M., Bandoles, E., Otte, J., del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L. & Wilson, B. (2022). “Bicycles are important for women!” Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.2020634

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Iqbal, I.* (2024). The challenges of addressing sexual and gender-based violence and climate (in)justice: Tensions and challenges for the Sport for Development and Peace sector. In J. Rookwood & M. Holmes (Eds.),  Sport, Development and Peace: Critical Global Challenges. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nachman, J.*, Hayhurst, L.M.C. & McSweeney, M.J.* (2024).  Digital Knowledge Translation Considerations from a Bicycles for Development Project. In K. Rich, R. Smith & A. Giles (Eds.), Participatory Research in Sport and Physical Activity. London: Routledge.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Darnell, S., Zakariah, R.* & McSweeney, M.* (2022). Social transformation and sport-for-development and peace. In N. Schulenkorf, R. Spaaij, J. Welty-Peachy, & H. Collison (Eds.), Handbook on Sport and International Development. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers

Steinmann, J., McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Wilson, B. (Forthcoming). Bicycles and the Creation of Peaceful Places. In G.B. Norcliffe (Ed.), The Companion to Cycling. London: Routledge.

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Bandoles, E. (In press). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0155

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E. & Leung, K. (2021). Colliding mandates of social enterprises: Exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social-market tensions of bicycles-for-development organizations. Sport Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1899721

Ardizzi, M., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M. & Otte, J. (2020). “People still believe the bicycle is for a poor person”: Features of ‘Bicycles for Development’ organizations in Uganda and perspectives of practitioners. Sociology of Sport Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0167

McSweeney, M., Millington, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M. & Otte, J. (2020).‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement.  International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1012690220904921

Reports, Digital Compilations, Podcasts, Policy Documents and Working Papers

Hayhurst, L.M.C., de Jong, M., del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L., Cobban, K. & Iqbal, I. (2025). Decolonial Feminist Climate Justice and ‘Bicycles for Development’: Using Bicycles to Combat Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Promote Gender Equality, and Encourage Gender-Sensitive Climate Activism in Nicaragua. Bicycles for Development Policy Brief Series. 1(1) DREAMING in Sport Lab, York University: Toronto, Canada.

McSweeney, M. Otte, J., Ogwal, M.F. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2025). Mobility Justice and Gender Equity in Uganda: Policy and Organizational Recommendations from Eight Years of Research into Bicycles for Development. Bicycles for Development Policy Brief Series. 1(1) DREAMING in Sport Lab, York University: Toronto, Canada.

Iqbal, I., Nachman, J., Hill, T., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Khandaker, S., Orlando, S., & McFarlane, C., (2025). Pedal Progression? Critically Examining Toronto’s Cycling Policies and Bicycle for Development Discourses. Bicycles for Development Policy Brief Series. 1(1) DREAMING in Sport Lab, York University: Toronto, Canada.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Cobban, K. (2024). Changing Gears (Documentary film – based on empirical research produced by SSHRC Insight Grant ‘Wheels of Change,’ (2021-2026; PI: Hayhurst). Film credits & publicity page here. (Role: Executive Producer, Co-writer, Co-director).

Bandoles, E., del Soccorro Cruz Centeno, L., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Wilson, B. (2020). The bicycle, agente de Cambio in Ometepe Island, Nicaragua: Findings and recommendations.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M., & Otte, J. (2020). Cycling against poverty? The bicycle, health, and livelihoods of HIV positive women in Northern Uganda.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E., & Steinmann, J. (2020). The bicycle, safe space, social justice, and Charlie’s FreeWheels in Toronto, Canada: Findings and recommendations.

Bandoles, E. (2018). Bicycles as a Tool for Development?

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & del Soccorro Cruz Centeno, L. (2017). Digital Story – Sport for Gender-Based Violence Protection: The Way We See It. Available in  English and Spanish: http://www.lyndsayhayhurst.com/videos.

Conference Presentations

2023

McSweeney, M. J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Nachman, J., Wilson, B., Millington, B. (2023, August). Comparing governmental policy to lived experiences: An examination of non-motorized transport policies and the bicycles-for-development sector. 2023 World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Ottawa, Canada.


2022

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Nachman, J. (2022, September). Bicycles for development and de-growth: A convivial tool? Cycling & Society Annual Symposium. (Virtual conference).

Nachman, J., McSweeney, M., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2022, July). Co-creating knowledge on bicycles for development through visual and arts-based methods. International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, Durham, United Kingdom.

McSweeney, M.*, Hayhurst, L.M.C, Otte, J., & Wilson, B. (2022, April). Social entrepreneurship and gender relations in Northern Uganda: Using postcolonial theory to critically explore the use of bicycles for development. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Hayhurst, L.M.C, McSweeney, M.*, Otte, J., Bandoles, E., del Soccoro Cruz Centeno, L., & Wilson, B. (2022, April). “Bicycles are really important for women”: Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Montreal, Canada.

2021

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Otte, J., & Wilson, B. (2021, May). “All of these children, I am the one who keeps them”: Social entrepreneurship, gender relations, and the use of the bicycle for development in rural communities of Northern Uganda. Submitted for oral presentation at the 2021 Canadian Congress on Leisure Research 16 (virtual).

2020

McSweeney, M.J. (2020, June). Collaborative visual and digital research methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: Utilizing photovoice, photocollaging, and digital storytelling. Oral presentation at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association Congress 2020, London, Ontario, Canada. (Conference cancelled)

2019

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E., & Steinmann, J. (2019, November). What counts as sport for development? Oral presentation at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M.J., & Bandoles, E. (2019, November). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Oral presentation at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Otte, J., & Wilson, B. (2019, June). Conducting effective collaborative research across global North-South contexts: Benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches. Oral presentation at the 2019 Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2018

Ardizzi, M. (2018, November). With(I)n the bicycles for development (BFD) movement: Methodology and embodied reflections. Poster presentation at annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ardizzi, M., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Wilson, B. (2018, July). The globalization of ‘bicycles for development’: Examining a sport for development ‘movement’. Oral presentation at the 19th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

McSweeney, M.J. (2018, July). Shifting gears: Exploring the ‘bicycles for development’ movement. Invited session (Sport and International Development) at the 23rd Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, Ireland.

Waldman, D., McSweeney, M.J., Wilson, B., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2018, June). Bicycles for development and India: Girls’ and young women’s perceptions of and experiences with donated bicycles. Oral presentation at the 6th International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2017

Hayhurst, L., Wilson, B., Millington, B. & Vanwynsberghe, R. (2017, November). Charting the ‘Bicycles for Development’ MoMovement. Paper presented at annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Windsor, ON, Canada.

Invited Lectures & Panels

More-than-Human Sport and Movement: Methodological Considerations [digital speaker series]
• Hayhurst, L., Bhattacharya, D., Evers, C. & Rich, E. (2025, July).

World Congress of Sociology of Sport (ISSA), Seoul, South Korea
• Hayhurst, L., Wilson, B., Otte, J., McSweeney, M. & Steinmann, J. (2025, July). Sustainability Communication, Mobility Justice & Climate Action in the Sociology of Sport.

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Mobility & Bike City Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Hayhurst, L. & Koinange, C. (2024, December). Pathways to progress – Active mobility as a catalyst for change.

Mobilizing Justice Transportation Modes Group, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.
• Hayhurst, L. (2023, May). Exploring bicycles, gender and development through digital participatory research.

Spotlight on Bikes and Equity, UBC Centre for Sport and Sustainability, Vancouver, B.C.
• Hayhurst, L. (2023, March). Exploring bicycles, gender and development through digital participatory research.

Interdisciplinary and Impactful Sport Research Initiatives, Brock University & MLSE LaunchPad [virtual symposium].
• Hayhurst, L. (2023, April). Developing formal research partnership agreements in sport and social justice research.

Public-Facing Data and Results

Storymapping Safe Spaces for Youth in a Trauma-and Violence Informed SFD Program September 2024-present
[link forthcoming]
• Collected data for and provided input on the creation of the visualization of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data online. Data was collected during fieldwork with community-based researchers in Toronto, Canada for Abuse-Free Sport Grant-funded study focused on trauma-and violence-informed sport for development programming for youth.

Visualizing Geotagged Media from Nicaragua: Bicycles for Development November 2022-present
https://arcg.is/05HSi5
• Collected data for and provided input on the creation of the visualization of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data online. Data was collected during fieldwork with community-based researchers in Nicaragua for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded study focused on bicycles for development

Visualizing Geotagged Media from Northern Rural Uganda: Bicycles for Development November 2022-present
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/73d43d1b7fcf4c9bb448367b414565b6
• Collected data for and provided input on the creation of the visualization of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data online. Data was collected during fieldwork with community-based researchers in Northern Uganda for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded study focused on bicycles for development.

Bicycles for Development in Nicaragua, Canada, and Uganda Digital Story October 2021
https://bicyclesfordevelopment.ca/
• Collected photovoice images, analyzed data, and supported the creation of a digital story (i.e., a ‘mini-movie’) based upon research conducted in Nicaragua, Canada, and Uganda on the use of bicycles-for-development.
• Supervised one PhD, two York University MA students and one research assistant in the construction of the digital story which has been shared publicly for knowledge translation of research findings.

The Sport, Social Justice, and Development Podcast

Our monthly podcast launched in October 2020 is focused on the use of sport, physical activity, recreation, and leisure for development purposes (e.g., gender equality, conflict resolution, social inclusion), in which we interview individuals working within the field of sport-for-development and peace, including organizational practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and program participants.

Listen via Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Direct links to specific episodes on Spotify: https://bicyclesfordevelopment.ca/podcast/